ix, 299 pages ; 23 cm

"Papers presented at a conference held at the Ohio State University on March 3 and 4, 1982"--Page vii

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index

Part one : Introductory -- Divine omniscience, omnipotence, and future contingents : an overview / Calvin G. Normore -- Nos ipsi prinvipia sumus : Boethius and the basis of contingency -- Part tow : Islamic perspectives -- Wrongdoing and divine omnipotence in the theology of Abu Ishaq an-Nazzam / Josef Van Ess -- Can God do what is wrong? / Richard Frank -- Divine omniscience and future contingents in Alfarabi and Avicenna / Michael E. Marmura -- Some reflections on the problem of future contingency in Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes -- Part three : Jewish perspectives -- The binding of Isaac : a test-case of divine foreknowledge / Seymour Feldman -- Philosophical exegesis in historical perspective : the case of the binding of Isaac / Jeremy Cohen -- Providence, divine omniscience and possibility : the case of maimonides / Alfred L. Ivry -- Divine omniscience, contingency and prophecy in Gersonides / Tamar Rudavsky -- Part four : Christian perspectives -- Divine omnipotence in he early Sentences / Ivan Boh -- Divine knowledge, divine power and human freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent / John F. Wippel -- The dialectic of omnipotence in the high and late Middle Ages / William J. Courtenay

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